The Labor Ministry’s investigation into the jobs of Britain’s refugee population is nearly complete, the press here reported today.
Able-bodied men and women are now being shifted from non-essential work to jobs of national importance. The authorities estimate that well over 90 percent of those who fled to Britain are now in war work. But the “comb-out” of these still in unessential occupations continues. “We are treating our refugees in exactly the same way as British subjects,” a Ministry official told a reporter.
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